Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa A Deputy Information Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has stressed that the Mills administration will not leave the new presidential palace to “rot”, discounting media reports that government is under pressure to use the edifice. Mr Ablakwa said government is following a plan of action that must see a gradual movement [...]
Read the rest of this story »Fuel supply to 19 oil marketing companies (OMCs) in the country has been cut by the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) for accumulating a debt of GH¢53,820,245.41. Explaining the hiccup in fuel distribution which struck the country at the weekend, a highly placed source close to TOR told the Daily Graphic that the situation was [...]
Read the rest of this story »Mrs. Zita Okaikoi The Deputy Minister of information, Mr. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has indicated that the Right to Information Bill is currently being discussed by cabinet for it to be passed into law by December, this year. He said the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mrs. Betty Mould Iddrisu, and the Minister of [...]
Read the rest of this story »GNA — Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations between West Africa and the European Union (EU) are in a limbo due to differences over market access, the regional grouping ECOWAS said on Tuesday. ECOWAS Commissioner for Trade and Industry, Mohammed Daramy, said a meeting between ECOWAS and the EU last week in Brussels did not [...]
Read the rest of this story »The main index of the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE), the All-Share Index, slipped in trading on Tuesday, losing 119.94 points to close at 6,291.94 from 6,411.88 points. Change for the year closed the session at -39.68 per cent. Traded volumes, however, picked up at 102,500 shares from 24,300 shares on the back [...]
Read the rest of this story »GNA – President John Evans Atta Mills, on Tuesday held a meeting with the Acting Chief Executive of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), Darius Mans and his executives in Washington to discuss issues relating to the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA). A release on the meeting e-mailed to Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Accra, [...]
Read the rest of this story »GNA – Mr Emmanuel Amah-Kofi Buah, Deputy Minister of Energy in-charge of Power, has appealed to the management of China International Water and Electric Corporation (CWE) to engage local professionals in the execution of a 170 million dollar project under the Self Help Electrification Programme (SHEP). He said the appeal was in line [...]
Read the rest of this story »GNA – The Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology has earmarked GH¢ 200,000 out of its 2010 budgetary allocation to procure seedlings for a massive tree planting exercise nation-wide next year. The measure is to produce enough oxygen to absorb the increasing carbon dioxide being emitted into the atmosphere which threatens the sustainability [...]
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